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The Story of a Peninsular Veteran: Sergeant in the Forty-Third Light Infantry, during the Peninsular War.
New Ed., 256pp., 13 (of 14) engravings, various text embellishments. Wesleyan Conference Office.Woolmer. nd [1878].
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Youth in Ireland, enlisted in the Queen's County Militia then into the 43rd in 1806. In 1807 the regiment was ordered for service, took part in bombardment of Copenhagen & later in Peninsular inc. Corunna, Battle of Busaco, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajos. Editions appeared in 1835 & 1839 under the title "Memoirs of a Sergeant late in the Forty-Third" - this one dates from 1878 (Library Hub refers). Modern blue rexine binding, gilt to sp., lacking frontis. portrait of Wellington, VG thus.
£45
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